Helen Nicoll has worked with Jan Pie kowski for over twenty years, first at the BBC and then on the Meg and Mog stories. She owned and ran the audio company Cover to Cover for many years. Helen lives in Marlborough, Wiltshire. Jan Pie kowski is a celebrated illustrator of children's books. He has won the Greenaway Medal twice -- for his illustration of Joan Aiken's The Kingdom Under the Sea and for Haunted House. Jan lives in London.